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itaque postea quam est nata haec vel cir-
cumscriptio vel comprehensio vel continuatio vel ambitus,
si ita licet dicere, nemo, qui aliquo esset in numero, scripsit
orationem generis eius quod esset ad delectationem com-
paratum remotumque a iudiciis forensique certamine, quin
redigeret omnis fere in quadrum numerumque sententias.
Nam cum is est auditor qui non vereatur ne compositae
orationis insidiis sua fides attemptetur, gratiam quoque
habet oratori voluptati aurium servienti.
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica, Tomus II. A. S. Wilkins. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1911. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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